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title: In 1947 the Kuomintang (KMT) government under Chiang Kai-shek declar… — Taipei · tree and pragmatics
description: In 1947 the Kuomintang (KMT) government under Chiang Kai-shek declared island-wide martial law in Taiwan as a result of the 28 February Incident, which began with incidents in Taipei but led to an island-wide crackdown on the local population by forces loyal to Chiang. Who acts: Kuomintang governmen
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# Taipei, sentence 60

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From Wikipedia, [«Taipei»](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Taipei), revision of the 2026-09-01 dump, [CC BY-SA 4.0](https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/). The trees and pragmatics of these pages, Mova's parse of that text, are CC BY-SA 4.0 too.

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In 1947 the Kuomintang (KMT) government under Chiang Kai-shek declared island-wide martial law in Taiwan as a result of the 28 February Incident, which began with incidents in Taipei but led to an island-wide crackdown on the local population by forces loyal to Chiang.

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**Who acts:** Kuomintang government, February Incident · **What happens:** declare, begin, lead, result · **To what, where:** 1947, local population, February Incident

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This is a sentence of the English Wikipedia article «Taipei». The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Kuomintang government, February Incident), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

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**Mova's own parse.** This tree may be wrong. The article's note marks are left out of the parse.

## The tree {#tree}

```conllu
# sent_id = wikipedia:Taipei:60
# text = In 1947 the Kuomintang (KMT) government under Chiang Kai-shek declared island-wide martial law in Taiwan as a result of the 28 February Incident, which began with incidents in Taipei but led to an island-wide crackdown on the local population by forces loyal to Chiang.
1	In	in	ADP	IN	_	2	case	_	_
2	1947	1947	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	14	obl	_	_
3	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	8	det	_	_
4	Kuomintang	Kuomintang	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	8	compound	_	_
5	(	(	PUNCT	-LRB-	_	6	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	KMT	KMT	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	4	appos	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	)	)	PUNCT	-RRB-	_	6	punct	_	_
8	government	government	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	nsubj	_	_
9	under	under	ADP	IN	_	10	case	_	_
10	Chiang	Chiang	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	8	nmod	_	_
11	Kai	Kai	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	10	flat	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	13	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	shek	shek	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	appos	_	_
14	declared	declare	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
15	island	island	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	19	compound	_	SpaceAfter=No
16	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	15	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
17	wide	wide	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	19	amod	_	_
18	martial	martial	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	19	amod	_	_
19	law	law	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	ccomp	_	_
20	in	in	ADP	IN	_	21	case	_	_
21	Taiwan	Taiwan	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	19	nmod	_	_
22	as	as	ADP	IN	_	24	case	_	_
23	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	24	det	_	_
24	result	result	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	obl	_	_
25	of	of	ADP	IN	_	29	case	_	_
26	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	29	det	_	_
27	28	28	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	28	nummod	_	_
28	February	February	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	29	compound	_	_
29	Incident	Incident	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	24	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
30	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	32	punct	_	_
31	which	which	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	32	nsubj	_	_
32	began	begin	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	29	acl:relcl	_	_
33	with	with	ADP	IN	_	34	case	_	_
34	incidents	incident	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	32	obl	_	_
35	in	in	ADP	IN	_	36	case	_	_
36	Taipei	Taipei	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	34	nmod	_	_
37	but	but	CCONJ	CC	_	38	cc	_	_
38	led	lead	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	14	conj	_	_
39	to	to	ADP	IN	_	44	case	_	_
40	an	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	44	det	_	_
41	island	island	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	43	compound	_	SpaceAfter=No
42	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	41	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
43	wide	wide	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	44	amod	_	_
44	crackdown	crackdown	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	38	obl	_	_
45	on	on	ADP	IN	_	48	case	_	_
46	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	48	det	_	_
47	local	local	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	48	amod	_	_
48	population	population	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	38	obl	_	_
49	by	by	ADP	IN	_	50	case	_	_
50	forces	force	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	38	obl	_	_
51	loyal	loyal	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	50	amod	_	_
52	to	to	ADP	IN	_	53	case	_	_
53	Chiang	Chiang	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	51	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
54	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	14	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **declare** *speech: other* | past | the Kuomintang government under Chiang |  |  | 1947 |  | as a result of the February Incident; island wide martial law in Taiwan *ccomp* | vn declare-29.4-1-1-1 «NP V NP ADJ»: agent=Agent as result=Attribute |
| 2 | **begin** | past | the February Incident |  |  |  |  | with incidents in Taipei | vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP V PP.subeventuality»: agent=Eventuality with incident=Subeventuality |
| 3 | **lead** | past | the Kuomintang government under Chiang *not said here* |  |  | the local population |  | to a wide crackdown; by forces | vn result-27.2 «NP V PP»: agent=Precondition to crackdown=Patient |
| 4 | **result** |  |  | the February Incident |  |  |  |  | nom result «phenomenon transitive»: of=patient |

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One row per clause the reader finds. «not said here»: a role filled from the clause above. «roles by»: a VerbNet class and frame when one fits the verb, else the reader's rules on the tree.

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**Text:** the English Wikipedia, «Taipei», revision of the 2026-09-01 dump, CC BY-SA 4.0. **Tree:** Mova's own parse, CC BY-SA 4.0 as the text is. **Frames:** Mova's frames reader (`prag`), the article read in order, CC BY-SA 4.0.

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